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D.D. OR CAUSES OF BACK PAIN : 1. TRAUMATIC, MECHANICAL OR DEGENERATIVE * LOW BACK STRAIN * FATIGUE * PREGNANCY * OBESITY * INJURIES OF BONE, LIGAMENTS OR JOINTS * DEGENERATIVE DISEASE LIKE OSTEOARTHRITIS, ANKYLOSING HYPEROSTOSIS * INTERVERTIBRAL DISC LESIONS * LUMBER INSTABILITY SYNDROME LIKE SPONDYLOLISTHESIS * SCOLIOSIS * SPINAL STENOSIS 2. METABOLIC * OSTEOPOROSIS * OSTEOMALACIA * HYPERPARATHYROIDISM * HYPOPARATHYROIDISM * OCHRONOSIS * FLUOROSIS * HYPOPHOSPHATAEMIC RICKETS 3. UNKNOWN CAUSES * INFLAMMATORY ARTHROPATHIES OF SPINE LIKE - ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS - SPONDYLITIS OF REITERS SYNDROME - PSORIASIS - ULCERATIVE COLITIS - WHIPPLES DISEASE - CROHNS DISEASAE * POLYMYOSITIS * POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA * PAGETS DISEASE * OSTEOCHONDRITIS ( SCHEUERMANNS DISEASE ) 4. INFECTIVE CONDITIONS OF BONE, JOINT & THECA OF SPINE * OSTEOMYELITIS * TUBERCULOSIS * UNDULANT FEVER * TYPHOID & PARATYPHOID FEVER & OTHER SALMONELLA INFECTIONS * SYPHILIS * YAWS * WEILS DISEASE ( RARE ) * SPINAL PACHYMENINGITIS * CHR MENINGITIS * SUBARACHNOID OR SPINAL ABSCESS 5. PSYCHOGENIC * ANXIETY * HYSTERIA * DEPRESSION * COMPENSATION NEOROSIS * MELINGERING 6. NEOPLASTIC - PRIMARY OR SECONDARY & BENIGN OR MALIGNANT * OSTEOID OSTEOMA * EOSINOPHELIC GRANULOMA * METASTATIC DEPOSITS FROM PRIMARY CARCINOMA OF BRONCHUS, BREAST, PROSTATE, KIDNEYS, THYROID & RARELY FROM OTHER SITES * DIRECT INVASION FROM CARCINOMA OF EOSOPHAGUS * MYELOMA * PRIMARY & SECONDARY TUMORS OF SPINAL CANAL & NERVE ROOTS LIKE - - EPENDYMOMA - NEUROFIBROMA - GLIOMA - ANGIOMA - MENINGIOMA - LIPOMA - RARELY CHONDROMA * RATICULOSES LIKE HODGKINS DISEASE 7. CARDIAC & VASCULAR CAUSES * SUBARACHNOID OR SPINAL HAEMORRHAGE * LUETIC, DEGENERATIVE OR DISSECTING ANEURYSM * GROSSLY ENLARGED LT. ATRIUM * MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION ( RARE ) 8. GYNAECOLOGICAL CAUSES * TUBERCULOSIS * PROLAPSE OR RETROVERSION OF UTERUS * DYSMENORRHOEA * CHR SALPINGITIS * PELVIC ABSCESS * CHR CERVICITIS * TUMORS 9. GASTROINTESTINAL CAUSES * PERFORATING POST GASTRIC OR DUODENAL ULCER * PANCREATITIS * BILIARY COLIC * RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASM 10. RENAL & GENITO-URINARY CAUSES * CARCINOMA OF KIDNEY * CALCULUS * HYDRONEPHROSIS * POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY * NECROTISING PAPILLITIS * PYELITIS * PYELONEPHRITIS * PERINEPHRIC ABSCESS 11. BLOOD DISORDERS * SICKLE CELL CRISIS * AC HAEMOLYTIC STATES 12. DRUGS * CORTICOSTEROIDS * METHYSERGIDE * COMPOUND ANALGESIC TABLETS 13. NORMALITY * NON- DISEASEX-RAY SPINE - NARROWING OF INTERVERTIBRAL DISC SPACES MRI SPINE C.T. SCAN ELECTROMYOGRAPHY MYELOGRAPHY
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INVESTIGATION
TOTAL LEUCOCYTE COUNT, DIFF. LEUCOCYTE COUNT, ESR ( MALE - WESTERGREN METHOD), ELECTROMYOGRAPHY, MRI, CT SCAN
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